Morris gave Rudy a look that I wasn't surprised at all.

“…… So what the hell did Ming do yesterday?"

"He only said one word," said substitute Haysom, who summed up yesterday's events well: "Jaime is a dog, except that he showed off his English and told Jaime this fact in five, six, seven, or eight ways." ”

Rudy blinked and let out a sigh of relief: "Ming, you're too impulsive. Jaime was a well-known racist, and yes, many in the West End didn't like him. But to offend him on the eve of our play is too unintelligent. ”

"Our play?" Ji Ming grasped the point very well, and successfully attracted the eyes of Rudy and Morris at the same time.

Morris glanced at Ji Ming, and then looked at Rudy seriously: "It's not that serious, is it? Even if Jaime has some influence, but for "Mo", it's not a fatal problem, I think. Even if he unleashed all his connections to smear us, he might end up bringing us attention - you know, there are very, very many people who annoy their old stuff. As soon as the first wave of audiences filled the theater, I was confident that I would convince them with my work. ”

"Moreover, we have many, many Chinese tourists, Italian tourists, and French tourists, who will come to support Ji Ming. Haysom is equally optimistic.

This is also the reason why last night, not a single crew stopped Ji Ming.

After all, this is the age of deviant social media, where influence has become a double-edged sword, often with unintended results – such as the leadership of the United States, the media rallying on the attack, and the tech giants being one-sided, but in the end, it is the golden retriever.

Ji Ming observed Rudy's expression, and he didn't look relaxed, but was even more helpless, and his mind turned.

"Kill?"

This is said in Chinese, subconsciously. But Ji Ming quickly explained in English: "They plan to exaggerate "Mo" excessively, before the performance, how can they exaggerate it? Then, after the performance, they stand up and criticize? That is, forcibly create a sense of disparity?"

From Rudy's expression, Ji Ming knew that he had guessed correctly.

"Really, how do you know?" asked Rudy quickly.

Rudy sighed, he is much more sophisticated than Morris, and he has more friends, and it is not surprising that someone has given him news, because Jaime will definitely not reveal his plan to Pan at the beginning, but will hide it and pretend that he is really very optimistic about "Silence", so that even Rudy, those who are really optimistic about "Silence", may cooperate with his actions.

However, Rudy didn't expect Ji Ming to guess so quickly, according to saying that he was so familiar with these routines, Ji Ming wouldn't be so impulsive.

But everything is tainted with racism, and there is no reason to talk about - the Chinese are known for their strong national pride.

Ji Ming was not afraid, he even smelled a little koi.

"What then?" Morris didn't have such a wealth of experience in struggle, and he was a little panicked: "Then we have to take the initiative to lower our expectations?"

That's a bad idea.

The field of public opinion has never been an acid-base neutral environment, and it is not that some objections from Morris's side can balance James's actions - but after the performance, their self-slapping behavior will become a kind of cooperation with James.

Prediction + after-viewing, it's all bad, that's really bad.

Self-contamination is absolutely not dry.

There is nothing more to do than self-staining.

After Morris figured it out, he had to keep comforting himself: "It's okay, our drama is very good, it's not something they can do if they want to discredit and suppress." And we can also make Jaime's racism public, at least to win the approval of a large part of the population. ”

Rudy glanced at Morris and really didn't think he was a good fit to be a businessman.

It's also a bad idea.

Any act of putting a grand proposition into a business operation is a tightrope walk, and if you are not careful, it will backfire - everyone has an overriding aversion to being used by businessmen. Rudy assured that Jaime must have been prepared, and as a veteran of the race, Rudy didn't think it would hurt him too much.

However, Morris is also half right, that is, the quality of "Silence", as mentioned earlier, it is not easy to bury a really, very excellent stage play this year - every audience is self-media, and Jaime will never be able to control them. Once the audience's reputation is formed, James's abacus will not work, and in Rudy's opinion, Ji Ming should think so.

He didn't know that there is a saying in China - art masters are bold. If he knew, he must have felt that it was very much in line with his inner guess.

But even so, anything can happen over the long life cycle of "Silence". For example, will it become a grinding heart—foreign and native, common and elite, Western and Eastern...... No one could have predicted.

This is not a good thing for an established theater that aims to operate steadily, and the amount of effort that Morris needs to spend is exponentially increased - this is what Rudy finds most annoying.

"There's no point in thinking about that now, is it?"

"Yes. Rudy glanced at Ji Ming and sighed: "Now it's as good as possible to make "Mo" as impeccable, music, dance, plot, solo, chorus, protagonist, supporting role, set, props, stage operation...... It's a huge project. ”

And there are only two days left.

Hehe.

All the cast and crew are like a dog in the back, and if they stop, they will be bitten off half of their butts. Everyone is redefining their performances and work, and Rudy is no longer arrogant, and has invited old friends to come over to help fill in the gaps - when he finds out that "Silence" has become the most well-prepared and comprehensive stage play in his career, he can't help but sigh that offending James is not without benefits.

……

As Ji Ming guessed, the day after James became a dog, the mainstream and traditional criticism field in the West End suddenly turned their attention to "Mo", the intensity and breadth are far beyond the past, and the treatment is so high that it makes people think that this is a British national drama.

"The most anticipated musical of the year? No, "Silence" is the most anticipated work of the decade. ”

"Its story fits so well with the stage, it's reminiscent of The Phantom of the Opera. ”

"Maybe the West End will bow down to a Chinese actor at Christmas. ”

"Ji Ming, will he be the next king of musicals in the West End?"

"If you know "Silence", you will find that both its story structure and its artistic expression are destined to be the most suitable work to be turned into a musical. It combines unbelievable dance, mesmerizing music, and a story that makes people forget about reality in an incredible way to create a work that is completely beyond expectations. ”

Regardless of whether the traditional field of criticism is in decline or not, it is natural that they are so interested in a "special" work that it will attract a lot of attention.

British netizens speculated unabashedly:

"It looks like a lot of money. ”

"See, Jaime is praising an Asian-starred musical, oh my God, are we already out of the EU? Or am I dreaming?"

"Honestly, I'll go and see it. There is no doubt about the level of the movie, and the adapted version is indeed worth looking forward to. ”

"These people are the same as the judges in Venice, and of course they have the same vision, and "Mo" may not really be that good. ”

"Can you still buy a ticket?"

- "No, I just called and asked, and the last ticket was bought by one of my previous phone calls. ”

- "Anyway, there are a few days of vacation, so you can watch the latter point." ”

"If it's not so good after watching it, I will definitely scold these good meals. ”

Two days is enough for the audience to buy tickets for the ten shows, and there are no corners left. Of course, it's enough for "Silence" to be a hit in London on Christmas Eve – and once it's popular, it's going to get a lot of attention.

Therefore, British audiences, and even English-speaking netizens in Europe and the United States, have also seen the news of "Silence" from big media such as the BBC and the Guardian. With the exception of Venice Actor, its box office figures in China are already approaching £250 million, or €300 million, or $350 million – that is, more than the famous "Black Swan," which is considered similar. There are many dramas, and there is still a lot of talk, these two movies from the United States and China just represent the ups and downs of the international situation, nonsense.

Similarly, the success of the Chinese version of the musical in China and the breaking of box office records were reported, so much so that Tiancheng Culture received invitations to tour, from some theaters in the UK and Europe.

In addition, Ji Ming's record in movies has also been refreshed by European and American media - "Do you know Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Leonardo DiCaprio at their peak? Ji Ming's influence and popularity in China may be higher than that of them in the United States, this is a national treasure of China." ”

The people behind verified the origin and origin of Ji Ming's "Chinese national treasure superstar" and "national treasure actor" in the Western world, and it was around this time that Hua Wei announced his brand spokesperson on Twitter and Facebook in a timely manner.

Hua Wei's popularity in the West is very high, very high, so that on the eve of the performance of "Silence", the Western world's attention to this musical and Ji Ming has reached a level that shocked him.

Because almost all the heavyweight media in Europe and the United States, as well as many influential figures, regard Warwick and "Mo" as two symbols, the former represents China with scientific and technological hard power, while the latter uses cultural soft power to conquer the West, and now, they have converged - waiting to pick a thorn in "Mo", waiting for it to fail, has far surpassed James, presumably James must be very excited at this time, and can't wait to light that fuse.

Ji Ming was not very happy, because Hua Wei's announcement was ahead of schedule, and he didn't tell him.

So before the performance, Ji Ming deliberately told Hua Wei about James, and reminded him of the possible consequences, and when "Mo" was a failure, and when tens of thousands of people ridiculed him, they didn't dare to imagine how embarrassed Hua Wei was, so that they held meetings again and again to make plans, and they couldn't sleep at all - but it was difficult to recover.

Both for Warwick and for Morris.

They can only welcome the arrival of the "Silence" performance with all their might, and they can guarantee that the audience will be seated by the most discerning and ulterior motives. In addition to the long queues of spectators waiting to enter the theater, there are also a large number of international media, mainly local and Chinese.

"Where did you hear about this play?"

"Are you a Chinese tourist?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are now at the door of the Morris Theatre in London's West End, and we can see that the English musical "Silence" starring Ji Ming is about to premiere...... Of course, there are also domestic tourists, all in the team behind me. "Mo" is adapted from the movie of the same name starring Ji Ming, its film and the Chinese version of the musical have been a great success, the English musical has not yet been released, has become probably the most popular Chinese drama work ever paid attention to by Western audiences, everyone's expectations for "Mo" are very high, and many viewers in the interview just now also said that it is the first time to pay attention to Chinese themes and musicals starring Chinese. ”

It's extremely hot outside, but backstage in the theater, Morris and several other main creators seem to be going to a tragic war.

They knew that after the show, the storm would come.

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